Be sure to include your name, daytime phone number, address, name and phone number of legal next-of-kin, method of payment, and the name of the funeral home/crematory to contact for verification of death.

Four years after he took office as Kansas City’s mayor, Sly James said he has the best job in politics and he is proud to lead a city “that is clearly reinventing itself.” In his State of the City speech, delivered before a crowd of more than 300 people at Starlight Theatre, James said: “Flyover country no more, Kansas City is the center of the American renaissance.”

Concern over a lack of job prospects may have convinced Spence Jackson to take his own life over the weekend, his final note suggests. “I’m so sorry,” the note said. “I just can’t take being unemployed again.” The note confirms what a Jackson friend told The Star Monday — that Jackson, 44, was worried about future employment after Missouri state auditor Tom Schweich committed suicide Feb. 26.

Clearing out the notebook from spring training with a last look at the singular magic of 2014, how much longer Ned Yost wants to manager, the sustaining advice Derek Jeter gave Mike Moustakas, and Yost’s indelible first impression of Salvador Perez.

Boulevard Brewery’s Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale was the winner of a blind-tasting panel of readers and beer experts in a Washington Post competition. It nearly pulled off a double-win as it finished second in the popular vote. Tank 7 is also in the Final Fou in Draft magazine’s Beer Bracket.

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The wife of a man accused of kidnapping a Henry County girl tipped off authorities on how to track him and told them about his online relationship with a girl named Sylvia who claimed to be 16, court records said.

A former Navy SEAL from Atchison, Kan., is opening a Kansas City branch of a Chicago program for veterans who become entrepreneurs. The Bunker KC will run a six-month incubator for eight to 12 businesses that are just starting out, said the ex-SEAL, Sean McIntosh.

Updated March 31: This man is wanted for burglary, stealing and selling marijuana. If you have information about any of these fugitives, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (816-474-8477), go to KCCrimeStoppers.com, or text TIP452 plus message and send to 274637. All calls are anonymous.

On this week’s episode of #TheHuddle, The Star’s Sam Mellinger, Vahe Gregorian and Blair Kerkhoff discuss whether Kentucky will finish 40-0, where Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall will wind up and also the excitement level around this year’s Royals opening day.